New Issue 23.1 (2025) of Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal of Theology is Now Available
The new issue of Theological Reflections: Eastern European Journal 23.1 (2025): "Theology of Memory in the Context of Experiencing Trauma and Collective Violence" is available online to read.
This issue explores the intersections of remembering and forgetting from different theological perspectives, as well as the relation between other complex processes of memory, such as disregard, denial, alienation, and imagination, the recovery of memories, and the individual and collective reconstruction of relations with the past.
Dan R. Stiver explores Paul Ricoeur's thoughts on the relationship between history, memory and ideology, emphasising the potential of narrative identity for healing in fragmented societies.
Vasyl Matsyuk offers a critical overview of the theology of memory in the works of Miroslav Volf, inviting further theological reflection on the challenges and hopes that memory poses to Christian life and witness.
Volodymyr Lukin explores the theological connection between the motif of memory and the command to exterminate the Canaanite peoples in Deuteronomy 7, analysing the legitimation of violence and its impact on the formation of collective memory in the biblical tradition.
Eugene Utkin proposes to look at the Gospel event of Pentecost in the light of Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics, using the concept of the productive-prospective imagination. This approach integrates memory, forgetting, and the creative potential of the imagination to rethink the past and form a new vision of reality.
Yuriy Mark examines the theological positions of Messianic Jews and Palestinian Christians on the land, analysing the potential of these positions for dialogue and theological reconciliation.
In the essay section, Anatoliy Denysenko commemorates the 80th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's execution, considering his legacy as a theological call to responsible living in response to God's call and request.
This issue also contains reviews of publications in the field of theology, philosophy, and biblical studies. The authors of the reviews are Ciprian Gheorghe-Luka, Dmytro Tsolin, Denys Kondyuk, Orysya Bila, Rodion Kadatskyi, Volodymyr Lukin, Mahomed Rubanenko, Andrii Shymanovych, and Serhiy Fluhrant. The new publications section includes two reviews by Eduard Denysiuk and Bohdan Derkach.
The editorial board would like to thank all those who contributed to this issue, especially READ Ministries and the Hodos Institute for their long-term financial support of the Eastern European Journal of Theology.
A printed copy of 23.1 (2025) will be available in limited quantities from June 2025, so we invite you to pre-order. Articles from this and previous issues of Theological Reflections are available on the journal's website.
